Skip to content

New every day: Korea news, words and grammar — in your language

Pocket Korean

Dictionary › TOPIK 5

TOPIK 5verb

억눌리다

eongnullida [엉눌리다]

억눌려요 · 억눌렸어요 · 억눌릴 거예요 · 억눌린 (+noun)

to be suppressed, to be oppressed, to be held down

Example

그동안 억눌렸던 감정이 한꺼번에 터져 나왔어요.

All the feelings I'd held down came bursting out at once.

Word parts

Passive of 억누르다 'to suppress', built on 누르다 'to press'.

Good to know

Pronounced [엉눌리다] — nasalization.